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INDEX. 



NAS 



Nasquapee Indians — continued 



— mode in which they pass their win- 

 ter at the Dividing Ridge, i. 246 



— their fire-mountain, i. 261 



— a Nasquapee family in Moisie Bay, 

 i. 292 



— astonishment of a Nasquapee at 

 first seeing a cow, i. 293 



— his endeavours to stalls it, i. 293 



— a Nasquapee's surprise at first see- 

 ing a horse, i. 294 



— their first impressions when they 

 see the ocean, i. 295 



— encampment of Nasquapees at Seven 

 Islands, i. 320 



— their mortality on the coast, i. 342, 

 343 



— Nasquapee squaws, i. 343, 344 



— the Nasquapee and the compass, i. 

 347 



— meaning of the word ' Nasquapee,' 

 ii. 96 



— extent of the country of the Nas- 

 quapees, ii. 97 



— their personal appearance, ii. 97 



— their language, ii. 97 



— custom of tatooing, ii. 97, 108 



— Nasquapees of Ungava, ii. 98 



— their practice of destroying old 

 people, ii. 99 



— their means of subsistence, ii. 99 



— their dress, ii. 99, 100 



— their practice of polygamy, ii. 1 00 



— community of goods amongst them, 

 ii. 100 



— their hatred of the Esquimaux, ii. 

 101 



— extent of their hunting-grounds, ii. 

 101 



— Cartwright's description of them, ii. 

 101 



— Pere Arnaud's account of them, ii. 

 101 



— their two deities, ii. 101 



— their conjurors, ii. 102 



— their evil deity Atshem, ii. 102 



— their superstitions, ii. 103 



— their fondness for European dress, 

 ii. 103 



— famine among them in winter, ii. 

 104 



— their delicate sense of smell, ii. 105 



— their mode of indicating speed and 

 direction, ii. 105 



— their lodijes, ii. 106 



— their mode of fishing, ii. 107 



— early account of the Nasquapees in 

 the year 1500, ii. 107 



NEW 



Nasquapee Indians — continued 



— Pcre Durocher's account in 1853, 

 ii. 110 



— causes of the decline of the Nasqua- 

 pees, ii. Ill 



— fatal iniiueuce of the coast on them, 

 i. 321 



— language spoken by them, i. 322 



— their manners and customs, i. 324 



— Mr. W. A. Davies's description of 

 the Nasquapees who frequent Ungava 

 Bay, ii. 22 



— their fate on the sea-coast, ii. 36 



— ditference between his life in the 

 interior and that on the coast, ii. 36 



Nasquapee River, source and course of 

 the, ii. 138 



— character of the country drained by 

 the, ii. 144 



Natashquan, Point, ii. 59 



— great seal fishery of, ii. 131, 154 



— timber at, ii. 131 



— soil and vegetation of the shores, ii. 

 131 



— Acadian settlement at, ii. 153 



— character of the country near, ii, 

 154 



— origin of the name, ii. 204 

 Natashquan River, account of the re- 

 gion drained by the, ii. 134 



Natiscotee, a name of Anticosti, ii. 69 

 Natiscotee River, ii. 69 

 Ne-e-no-il-no, or perfect men, a name 



of the INIontagnais Indians, ii. 10 

 Neuf, Port, disturbance of the compass 



at, ii. 46 

 Newfoundland, probable causes of the 



fogs on the banks of, ii. 64 



— average depth and conformation of 

 the great bank, ii. 64, 65 



— discovery of, by the Cabots, ii. 126 



— called also Terre de Boccaleos, ii. 

 126 



— seal fishery of, ii. 212 



— testimony of a French official as to 

 the value of the fisheries, ii. 227 



— and of a United States document, ii. 

 228 



— convention between her Majesty 

 and the Emperor of the French 

 relative to the rights of fishery on 

 the coast, ii. 220 



— brief history of the Newfoundland 

 fisheries, ii. 222 



— value of the cod fishery, ii. 234 

 Newfoundland, Bishop of, his account 



of the Church in Labrador, ii. 194, 

 196 



